Mycetophila cingulum Meigen, 1830*

Jakovlev, Jevgeni, Salmela, Jukka, Polevoi, Alexei, Penttinen, Jouni & Vartija, Noora-Annukka, 2014, Recent noteworthy findings of fungus gnats from Finland and northwestern Russia (Diptera: Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Bolitophilidae and Mycetophilidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1068-1068 : 1068

Mycetophila cingulum Meigen, 1830*

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Penttinen; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Karelia ladogensis; municipality: Parikkala; locality: Siikalahti ; decimalLatitude: 61.556; decimalLongitude: 29.558; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2008-7-22 /9-1; habitat: old-growth forest, herb-rich type; Record Level: institutionCode: JPJ Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.Jakovlev; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: Finland; stateProvince: Nylandia; municipality: Helsinki; locality: Tullisaari, Stansvikin kartano ; decimalLatitude: 60.169; decimalLongitude: 25.024; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: J.Jakovlev; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2011-8-2 /8-13; habitat: Wood-storage areas in Helsinki; Record Level: institutionCode: JJH

Distribution

Holarctic. In Europe recorded mainly from western, northern and central Europe ( Chandler 2004, Kjaerandsen 2012). In Fennoscandia there are few and scattered records from southern and northern parts of the region ( Kjaerandsen et al. 2007, Søli and Kjaerandsen 2008). Here reported formally for the first time from Finland.

Ecology

Larvae are associated with fruiting bodies of a saproxylic bracket fungi: Polyporus squamosus ( Jakovlev 1994, Zaitzev 2003, Ševčík 2010) and Grifola frondosa ( Chandler 1993).

Conservation

Red-listed in Finland (VU, Penttinen et al. 2010). This species is common in the British Isles and western Europe, but in Finland was found only in two localities, a herb rich forest at Parikkala and a city park at Helsinki, both situated in southernmost part of the country. Its host fungus P. squamosus is distributed chiefly in southern Finland, e.g. colonize elm, ash, maple trees in parks, but could also be found at moist places on willows in central Finland.